Hibiscus Grenadine Recipe

If you've never had homemade grenadine, you're in for a treat. Unlike the commercial stuff, which is little more than corn syrup and food coloring, this homemade grenadine uses real pomegranates and dried hibiscus flowers. If you can't buy fresh pomegranates, bottled not-from-concentrate juice (such as POM) can be substituted. The hibiscus and pomegranate juice give this grenadine and deep, garnet red that will give any drink a brilliant crimson hue.

Hibiscus "flowers" are actually the fleshy red calyx that remains after the petals fall off. The fruit with its fuzzy black seeds is usually removed from the calyx before drying.

Combine water and sugar in a two quart or larger sauce pan and heat on medium. Stir until sugar is dissolved, then add pomegranate arils and hibiscus. Simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and use the back of a large spoon or a flat potato masher to crush the arils. Cover and let steep for one hour. Strain through a fine mesh strainer and then through a paper coffee filter or jelly bag. Bottle and keep refrigerated up to two weeks.

2 Comments To "Hibiscus Grenadine Recipe"

Janel Johnson On Aug 31 2018

Hi Anthony,
The pomegranate juice in the recipe contains naturally occurring sugars so to make it completely sugar free you would need to use just hibiscus flowers, water, and a sugar free sweetener of your choice.
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Anthony j.Leese, On Aug 31 2018

I was poised with joy. I want to make sugar free hibiscus syrup, I look forward your response.
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